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SEBD @sebioldev.bsky.social · 2d

We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

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Cristina Pujades @cristinapujades.bsky.social · 2d

We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship

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Aga Gambus @agagambus.bsky.social · 2d

We are looking for a senior technician (can undertake PhD) at Uni of Birmingham (UK) to study chromatin replication and ubiquitylation using Xenopus egg extract. Deadline 28/10/25. Get in touch with me or @m-saponaro.bsky.social for informal inquiries. Please share.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW912/s...

Senior Research Technician at University of Birmingham

Explore an exciting academic career as a Senior Research Technician. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Rosa Barrio Lab @rosabarrio1.bsky.social · 8d

Nice meeting you and your team at #EMBOSUMO 2025 in La Grande Motte and get to hear about your projects. Kudos to @guillaumebo6.bsky.social for organization 👏👏
SUMO rocks!
#SUMO #Ubiquitin #Proteostasis

Marcin J. Suskiewicz @msuskiewicz.bsky.social · 9d

A part of our team at the recent EMBO SUMO conference in La Grande Motte/Montpellier

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Rosa Barrio Lab @rosabarrio1.bsky.social · 16d

#EMBOSUMO is starting! Next few days we will be immersed in the fascinating #SUMO word. Looking forward to it

Guillaume Bossis @guillaumebo6.bsky.social · 17d

🔥 The #EMBOSUMO workshop kicks off TODAY! 🎉 Thanks @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social @proteocure.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social @occitanie.bsky.social for their support. More info: meetings.embo.org/event/25-sum...

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Guillaume Bossis @guillaumebo6.bsky.social · 17d

🔥 The #EMBOSUMO workshop kicks off TODAY! 🎉 Thanks @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social @proteocure.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social @occitanie.bsky.social for their support. More info: meetings.embo.org/event/25-sum...

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 22d

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly

This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.

www.nbcnews.com

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · 22d

Loosing #FlyBase / @flybase.bsky.social would be a blow to modern science: an unprecedented information hub combining data across levels of complexity from genes to organisms, reaching out to other species & humans, meticulously reporting on 120 years of research!
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly

This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marcin J. Suskiewicz @msuskiewicz.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are happy to have contributed a protocol to a book on SUMO methods (work mainly by postdoc El Hadji Cisse and engineer Stéphane Goffinont): link.springer.com/protocol/10....

Production and Purification of SUMO-UBC9 and SUMO-RANGAP1CTD

SUMOylation is a post-translational modification catalyzed by a multi-step enzymatic cascade. To gain structural biology insights into the last step of this process, where SUMO is transferred from a S...

link.springer.com

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Dan Grabarczyk @dangrabarczyk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Glad to share the final version of our story about the UBR4 complex, an E4 ligase protein quality control hub @science.org. Now with more cryo-EM structures and a deeper dive into substrate recognition, especially escaped mitochondrial proteins @clausenlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Asociación de Mujeres Investigadoras y Tecnólogas (AMIT) @amit25.bsky.social · Aug 27

Como todos los miércoles, recordamos a nuestras colegas afganas y a todas las mujeres y niñas de ese país que viven en peligro constante a causa del apartheid al que las somete su propio gobierno. #NoOsOlvidamos.

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dear GenZ members of the #Drosophila community! You are needed to make cool fly research viral in your social media world! As a boomer I do not understand that sphere, but I can consult and contribute our enormous fund of outreach resources: droso4public.wordpress.com. Please, get in contact!

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droso4public is a central resource store supporting science communication and advocacy for Drosophila

droso4public.wordpress.com

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Aug 23

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Dear Fly Community,

In May 2025, the NIH terminated all grant funding to Harvard University, including the NHGRI grant that supported FlyBase. This grant also funded FlyBase teams at Indiana University (IU) and the University of Cambridge (UK), and as a result, their subawards were also canceled.

The Cambridge team has secured support for one to two years through generous donations from the European fly community, emergency funding from the Wellcome Trust, and support from the University of Cambridge. At IU, funding has been secured for one year thanks to reserve funds from Thom Kaufman and a supplement from ORIP/NIH to the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC).

Unfortunately, the situation at Harvard is far more critical. Harvard University had supported FlyBase staff since May but recently denied a request for extended bridge funding. As a result, all eight employees (four full-time and four part-time) were abruptly laid off, with termination dates ranging from August to mid-October depending on their positions. In addition, our curator at the University of New Mexico will leave her position at the end of August. This decision came as a shock, and we are urgently pursuing all possible funding options.

To put the need into perspective: although FlyBase is free to use, it is not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create FlyBase to support fly research (the last NHGRI grant supported us with more than 2 million USD per annum).

To help sustain FlyBase operations, we have been reaching out to you to ask for your support. We have set up a donation site in Cambridge, UK, to which European labs have and can continue to contribute, and a new donation site at IU to which labs in the US and the rest of the world can contribute. We urge researchers to work with their grant administrators to contribute to FlyBase via these sites if at all possible, as more of the money will go to FlyBase. However, we appreciate that some fu…

https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

Our immediate goals are:

1. To maintain core curation activities and keep the FlyBase website online

2. To complete integration with the Alliance of Genome Resources (The Alliance).

Integration with the Alliance is essential for FlyBase’s long-term sustainability. For nearly a decade, NHGRI/NIH has supported the unification of Model Organism Databases (MODs) into the Alliance, which we aim to achieve by 2028. Therefore, securing bridge funding to sustain FlyBase over the next three years is crucial for successful integration and the long-term access to FlyBase data.

At present, our remaining funds will allow us to keep the FlyBase website online for approximately one more year. Beyond that, its future is uncertain unless new funding is secured. We will, of course, continue pursuing additional grant opportunities as they arise.

Given the uncertainty of future NIH or alternative funding sources, we are relying on the Fly community for support. Your contributions will directly help us retain the staff needed to complete this transition and to secure ongoing fly data curation into the Alliance beyond 2028.

We at FlyBase are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community during this challenging time. Your encouragement has strengthened our resolve and underscores how vital this resource remains to Drosophila research worldwide.

Sincerely,
The FlyBase Team

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Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · Aug 23

Please please please, if you are able, consider supporting Flybase fiscally. They need our help! I donated this evening. They are in danger of closing and any amount will help. We cannot allow this critical pillar of science to collapse!

FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

wiki.flybase.org

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

wiki.flybase.org

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Amnistía Internacional España @amnistiainternacional.es · Aug 21

Esta cuenta apoya a las mujeres afganas, ¿y la tuya? 💜 Han pasado 4 años desde que los talibanes les arrebataron todo, pero queremos demostrar que miles de personas en todo el mundo no las olvidan, ¿nos ayudas? ¡Comparte esta imagen! amnistia.es/afganistan

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Sven Lange @sven-m-lange.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to see this work published online at @cp-cell.bsky.social today!

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Paloma Llaneza @palomallaneza.com · Aug 19

David Geier, un médico que practicaba la medicina sin licencia en EEUU, es el autor del único estudio que relaciona vacunas con autismo y que es usado por los negacionistas para cargarse la vacunación.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · Aug 19

This is a great graphic: all of the studies with a dot in the corner were conducted by the Geiers -- one of whom, David Geier, practiced medicine without a license

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Rosa Barrio Lab @rosabarrio1.bsky.social · Jul 31

@sebioldev.bsky.social 👇

John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ok nerds, let's have fun. Thought experiment: NASA asks @socdevbio.bsky.social to provide a single image to be shot into space to tell the universe about #devbiol. Just one image. What is it? Waddington's landscape? Antennapedia? Spemann/Mangold's two-headed tadpole? What? Respond and RT, pls.

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Manuel Collado @manuel-collado.bsky.social · Jul 16

We have extended the deadline for early registration to SEBC2025 to September 9th.
Go to sebc2025.org and register to this fantastic meeting and also send your abstract to present your work.
Fantastic lineup of speakers, loads of opportunities to present, interact and have fun

SEBC – SCQ2025 – XXI Spanish Society of Cell Biology Meeting

sebc2025.org

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Guillaume Bossis @guillaumebo6.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣 Happy to share our last publication on SUMOylation and Natural Killers in AML. aacrjournals.org/mct/article-...

Targeting SUMOylation triggers interferon-ß-dependent activation of patient and allogenic Natural Killer cells in preclinical models of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Abstract. Natural Killer (NK) cells can play a significant role in the anti-tumoral immune response. In patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), NK cells are however often found in low numbers and ...

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · Jul 13

We've just been awarded a grant to study the cellular basis of regeneration – to track the progenitors of sensory organs in the context of leg regeneration, in our favourite crustacean tinyurl.com/parhyale, based on live imaging and cell tracking. The project involves some cool collaborations... 1/3

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Rosa Barrio Lab @rosabarrio1.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats @mirimiam.bsky.social and @cristinapujades.bsky.social for this recognition! @sebioldev.bsky.social

Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thrilled to become an EMBO Member! Thanks so much to @embo.org for the recognition, and thanks A LOT to all current and past lab members, mentors and collaborators for making it possible! 🤗

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thrilled to become an EMBO Member! Thanks so much to @embo.org for the recognition, and thanks A LOT to all current and past lab members, mentors and collaborators for making it possible! 🤗

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

www.embo.org

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Rosa Barrio Lab @rosabarrio1.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Fernando Garcia-Moreno @phylobrain.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎙️ Just out: my interview on The Creative Process podcast!
A surprising conversation where we went way beyond the usual: cultural evolution, the language-psychology link, AI legislation and brain constraints, the beauty of dev biology… and creativity in research!
🧠✨ Listen here: shorturl.at/Sjqo7

The Evolutionary Brain - DR. FERNANDO GARCÍA-MORENO on Creativity & Survival

The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism,...

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